Chris Hudiburgh

Christopher Alexander Hudiburgh is a songwriter and lead vocalist for the rock band Mercy Fist. As early as the age of 2, Christopher showed an interest in playing the guitar. He would watch a video of the life of Ritchie Valens over and over to see and mimic “La Bamba”. But it wasn’t until his early teens, that a bad break became an opportunity for the future.

At the age of 12, Christopher was involved in a skateboarding accident that left him in a wheel chair. Feeling depressed and unmotivated Chris found an old Classical Acoustic Guitar lying around his Mom’s room. Over the next 6 months of healing, Chris taught himself the basics of guitar. Against Mom’s and the Doctor’s wishes, Chris tried out for his High school football team. Two weeks into the season Chris had another freak accident… A helmet to the shin broke both the tibia and the fibula and sent him right back to the hospital. Determined to stay busy, Chris found himself playing guitar again but this time with more of a purpose. Using a Washburn Electric Guitar that his grandmother bought for him at Sears, Chris started learning how to play Nirvana. At 16 Chris would form his first band, “Quest 2 Zion”. They entered a battle of the bands at the Palace in Hollywood and took 1st. place. This was the point where the musician became the performer.

After Graduating in 2003, Chris went through some intense personal struggles that eventually led him away from the music he loved so much. So painful in fact, Chris even sold all his guitars and equipment. Chris felt his world spiraling downwards but one night he cried out to God asking him to take all his pain away, restore his life and to make him whole.

God answered Chris’s prayers that night.

Fast forward several months and Chris was introduced to a man named Micah Foster at Church, where he would be reintroduced to his passion for music and performing. Chris went to a local pawn shop with $100 in his pocket and bought an Ibanez Bass and started playing music again. As Faith would have it, Chris would be playing alongside the talented drummer Kaleb Smith and then later would be introduced to a young guitarist, Brett Posch.

Thanks to the love and support of Family and Faith in God, Mercy Fist was born.

Gear-

Vox Ac 30

Schecter C1 Plus

Korg Triton LE

Washburn EA40

Microphone – Shure Super 55 Deluxe

Influences-

Kurt Cobain – was an American musician and artist, best known as the lead singer, guitarist and primary songwriter of the grunge band Nirvana. Cobain formed Nirvana with Krist Novoselic in Aberdeen, Washington in 1985 and established it as part of the Seattle music scene, having its debut album Bleach released on the independent record label Sub Pop in 1989. Wikipedia

David Grohl – an American rock musician, multi-instrumentalist, and singer-songwriter, who is the lead vocalist, guitarist, primary songwriter and founder of the Foo Fighters, prior to which he was the drummer in the grunge band Nirvana. He is also the drummer and co-founder of the rock supergroup Them Crooked Vultures. Grohl has additionally written all the music and performed all the instruments for his short-lived side projects Late! and Probot, as well as being involved with Queens of the Stone Age numerous times throughout the past decade. Wikipedia

Aaron Lewis – s the lead vocalist, rhythm guitarist, and founding member of the rock group Staind, with whom he has released seven studio albums. He has since ventured into country music with his debut solo album, Town Line. Wikipedia

Bradly Nowell – Bradley James Nowell was an American musician who served as lead singer and guitarist of the reggae/punk band Sublime. He died at the age of 28 from a heroin overdose shortly before the release of Sublime’s self-titled major label debut. Wikipedia

Brandon Boyd – Brandon Charles Boyd is an American musician, author, and visual artist. He is best known as the lead vocalist of the American rock band Incubus. Wikipedia

Comments

Saw you and your band mate last night with Carol at Back to the Grind. What a fun evening and your music was outstanding! Many good wishes for you and I hope to see you again soon. Johanna Fredrics, Riverside, CA

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[…] we all work our own separate jobs and put in our 40 hours a week. Kaleb works in a tile warehouse; Chris as a computer technician; Brandon as a sound engineer; and myself as an administrative clerk. But […]